Christian Theology after Christendom brings together contemporary thinkers to engage and build upon Douglas John Hall’s work—and to take up his challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the cross as a means to speak of the realities of life and faith today.

Christian Theology after Christendom: Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall brings together contemporary thinkers to engage and build upon Douglas John Hall’s work—and to take up his challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the cross as a means to speak to the realities of life and faith today. With a focus on contemporary issues, this edited collection critically analyzes and deconstructs the centuries-old colonial triumphalism of Christian theology and the church in the West. This book seeks to frame present day crises in ways that honor a deeply rooted theologia crucis that does not colonize the “other.” It explores constructive decolonizing possibilities for Christian theology at the end of Christendom.

Foreword

Walter Brueggemann

Introduction and Acknowledgments

Patricia G. Kirkpatrick and Pamela R. McCarroll

1. The Art of Theology: Five Approaches to Curating the Work and Thought of Douglas John Hall

David Lott

2. Illusion and Hope

Michael Bourgeois

3. Faith and Fragilization: Douglas John Hall and Charles Taylor in Dialogue

Andrew Root

4. Contextual Theology in Canada: Between Covenant and Treaty

Allen G. Jorgenson

5. Indian Residential Schools and the Churches: An Exercise in the Theology of the Cross

Brian Thorpe

6. Hall’s Eco-Theology of the Cross in a Climate-Changed World

Harold Wells

7. What Are People For? Re-Imaging Theo-anthropology in the Anthropocene

Pamela R. McCarroll

8. God and the Church after Christendom: Rethinking “Power” through Douglas Hall’s Theologia Crucis

Harris Athanasiadis

9. The Relevance of the Theology of Douglas Hall for the Cuban Context

Adolfo Ham

10. ReWilding the Gospel: Douglas John Hall and Post-Christendom Religious Dialogue

Gary A. Gaudin

11. The Memory of Divine Pathos: Heschel, Hall, and the Hebrew Bible

Patricia G. Kirkpatrick

12. The Gospel of Irresolution: Thinking along with Douglas John Hall about Cross Theology, Illness, and Not Yet Resurrection

Deanna A. Thompson

Afterword. Christian Theology after Christendom: Three Essentials

Douglas John Hall

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